I ran away from teaching to the country to grow veggies. There are also some chooks and a pair of troublesome goats who were so much trouble they had to go! My simple green life isn't always as simple or as green as I'd like...but I keep trying!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

La pomme de terre.

I was waiting for the foliage to die down so I could dig the tatties. It never seemed to happen so I dug them up anyway. These were the potatoes that just appeared last spring. They are kipflers and although some of them were small tiny, there were a lot of them.

I dug the bed over twice, very carefully in an effort to find them all, then added compost and other things ready for another planting soon.

As I was hoeing my additions in I found more potatoes.

When I raked it I found even more.

I will be weeding pommes from my terre for a while, I think!

I am preparing this bed for my brassica seedlings to move into.

The seedlings are doing well and I thought I would bring them out of their little plastic box hot houses and into the sun to harden them off.

I turned my back for ten minutes and there were white butterflies hovering about.

For some reason I think the long thin spuds are the most appealing - like your Kipflers, or Pink Fir Apple, or Ratte, or Anya...Maybe just one or two more weeks and then I'll plant my own seed potates.

They are everwhere here, those cabbage moths...plant some celery, sage, or rosemary near the brassica bed.....apparently this helps..I am going to try it. I already have a big rosemary bush ...and will put some sage in amongst it too...